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  • Hi Bill,

    Groups are generally used to separate a report connected to a single
    dataset into logical sections.

    Since you are using different datasets for each section of the report, I
    suggest using Section style subre…
  • Hi Kent,

    The band background feature toggles the background color based on the
    DetailBand.Count property which is reset each time a group breaks.

    If you would like to customize this behavior so that groups are not
    t…
  • Hi Marius,

    Unfortunately this is currently not a built-in feature of ReportBuilder.
    When a report is initialized, all detail data is traversed whether it
    is drilled down or not. We will consider enhancing this for a future …
  • Hi Marius,

    I'm a bit unclear about your question. Would you like to fully expand
    the drill down subreport before printing? If so, you can use the
    Report.ExpandDrillDowns routine to do so before printing.

    See the T…
  • Hi Mark,

    The title band is functioning as designed. It is meant to print before
    every other band regardless how many pages it spans.

    The title band was designed to hold minimal title information (company
    logo, etc.…
  • Hi Mark,

    This sounds like a good alternative to using Section subreports,
    especially if the output is acceptable for your needs.

  • Hi Mark,

    Rather than using the Title band, I recommend separating your report
    into two using section subreports.

    Create an empty main report with a detail band only and place two
    section style subreports inside the …
  • Hi Guillermo,

    The error indicates that the automatic RB/TeeChart package builder
    failed during the RB installation. Please try to run the package
    builder manually and see if you still get an error. See the following
    ar…
  • Hi Guillermo,

    Please post to the original thread when responding rather than starting
    a new thread.

    There is definitely an issue with the RB/TeeChart packages building.
    When you ran the RBTeePackageBuilder.exe, it c…
  • Hi Jeff,

    There technically is a way to do this by manually accessing the toolbar
    item action however it isn't very elegant and I can't guarantee this
    will work for all future versions.

    We will consider adding an eas…
  • Hi Diego,

    ReportBuilder tries to mimic on screen what you will see when you print
    to your printer. Your Delphi RichEdit will calculate text wrapping
    based on screen pixels. The report will do so based on the pixels of
  • Hi Carl,

    TppGroup.FirstPage(); is a function that returns a boolean value and is
    still present in the latest version of ReportBuilder (RB 16).

    This routine is documented in the TppGroup topic of the RB help and is
    u…
  • Hi Christian,

    For future reference, please use your real name as the sender when
    posting to these newsgroups.

    ReportBuilder currently does not support exporting to EPUB format. We
    will add this to our list of possi…
  • Hi Carl,

    I did a simple test with the latest version of ReportBuilder and some
    sample data and a full justified DBMemo appears identical when
    previewed, printed, and exported to PDF. With the ForceJustifyLastLine
    proper…
  • Hi Jeroen,

    What you are seeing here is what is described in the article I posted in
    my previous message.

    The RTF Editor is measuring text using screen pixels. ReportBuilder
    uses the Delphi TRichEdit control for the…
  • Hi J.W.,

    Which version of ReportBuilder and Delphi are you using?

    Are you able to recreate this behavior for every printer or just a
    certain one?

    Please also provide more information about how the printed tab s…
  • Hi Andreas,

    Which version of Delphi are you using? Are you experiencing this
    behavior at runtime or design-time? If you do not see the "Configure"
    option in the popup menu when right clicking a crosstab component, you
    in Crosstab Comment by nicocizik May 2015
  • Hi Andreas,

    Which version of Delphi are you using? Are you seeing this at runtime
    or Delphi design-time (or both)?

    From Delphi, select the Component | Install Packages... option from the
    main menu and be sure ther…
  • Hi Mauro,

    I performed the same test with our Windows Server 2012 installation and
    was able to recreate the issue.

    The ReportBuilder REST Server utilizes TClientDataset to organize the
    directory structure before conv…
  • Hi Ian,

    Long ago, Waler did have a conversion utility however it does not appear
    to still be available. I also doubt it has been maintained to function
    with the latest versions of ReportBuilder.

    You will likely nee…
  • Hi Mauro,

    Since parameters are not currently an option, you could create a
    different data module for each of your users which in turn accesses the
    specific reports needed. These would be seen as "Directories" to the
    cli…
  • Hi Mauro,

    Thanks for your interest in the REST Reporting feature. ReportBuilder
    16 currently does not have support for report parameters or user
    sessions. As you have seen in our source, these features are in the
    works…
  • Hi Eliseu,

    ReportBuilder 14 introduced continuous page viewing via the previewer
    and viewer and fully supports scrolling through multiple pages with the
    mouse wheel.

    Please consider upgrading to the latest version o…
  • Hi Bohdan,

    The ReportBuilder PDF export device does not currently support digitally
    signing PDF files as they are created. This feature is on our list of
    possible enhancements for a later release of the product. Thanks for <…
  • Hi Andrea,

    I apologize for the delayed response.

    In addition to the method used in the example, you can access the file
    device (Image Device) using the OnFileDeviceCreate event.

    For example...

    proced…
  • Hi Andrea,

    By default the Image Device(s) export each page at 100% according to the
    screen resolution which is generally 96 ppi. You can increase the scale
    used by altering the TppImageDevice.Scale property.

    For in…
  • Hi George,

    If you would like a new column started after a group break, you can
    check the "Start New Column" option in the groups dialog or set the
    Group.NewColumn property to True.

    If you would like a new page start…
  • Hi Dirk,

    Occasionally this behavior can occur when there is a naming conflict
    between multiple TppReport objects. To avoid the issue, be sure there
    in only one TppReport on each form/datamodule in your application.

  • Hi Sergio,

    It is possible to replace almost all dialogs in ReportBuilder with your
    own. See the following article on how this can be done.

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  • Hi Steve,

    When using Parameterized Linking, ReportBuilder does not retrieve any
    values or replace the parameter name with a value. This is done by the
    built-in Delphi TDataSet logic.

    ReportBuilder simply creates a …